98. Burial

‘Gri-what?!’

She blew on her bruised knuckles and as soon as she did, a green fire circled around her fist. ‘Now, puny hero..! Meet your fate!’ she roared then she threw her fist towards him.

Brendan turned and used his heightened speed to run as fast as his two feet could carry him. The Finch however, was in hot pursuit.

‘Accept death like your best friend…just like you did before, you scum!’ she shouted from behind him.

As he zigzagged around buildings, he managed to throw a hesitant but quick and brief glance over his shoulder and he saw that her fist was still covered in the green flames and she was clearly catching up to him. He ran up the walls of a multi-storey building, thinking this would at least shake her off his tail, but he was wrong. In the split-second that he had reached halfway up the building, he jumped in a backward flip so that when the Finch was below him he went for her throat with his right hand.
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